What is Google App Engine

As we all know, Google is at the forefront of what you may call the Internet revolution. Besides being the number 1 search engine, the Google app engine is also leveraging Cloud Partner platform. It has come up with different products to help developers launch new scalable web and mobile apps.

Amongst its various cloud-based products, Google app engine has become quite popular.

The app engine is a Cloud-based platform, is quite comprehensive and combines infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software as a service (SaaS). The app engine supports the delivery, testing and development of software on demand in a Cloud computing environment that supports millions of users and is highly scalable.

The company extends its platform and infrastructure to the Cloud through its app engine. It presents the platform to those who want to develop SaaS solutions at competitive costs.

Who Benefits the Most from the Google App Engine?

As an entrepreneur have you ever looked for a software solution to satisfy your specific need? If yes, what do you do in these circumstances? All things considered, you either pay somebody to build a solution from scratch, or you build up a custom web application on your own. While you may think the latter sounds good but it’s costly, time-consuming, and impractical. Therefore, Google App Engine (GAE) makes it easy and modernized.

Business owners can scale up their web-based applications without compromising on the performance. Companies like Best Buy and Khan Academy have chosen Google App Engine for their apps.

Google App Engine

Google App Engine is a development as well as a hosting platform that powers everything from big businesses web apps to mobile games, using the same infrastructure that powers Google’s worldwide-scale web applications.

It is a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) Cloud computing platform that is fully managed and uses inbuilt services to run your apps. You can start development almost instantly after downloading the software development kit (SDK). You can go on to the Google app developer’s guide right away when you click on the language you wish to develop your app in.

As soon as you have signed up for a Cloud account, you can build your app:

·         With the template/HTML package in Go

·         With Jinja2 and webapp2 in Python

·         With Cloud SQL in PHP

·         With Maven in Java